Quantum Benchmarking Amendment 1 Summary.docx

This document summarizes an amendment to a Broad Agency Announcement from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The purpose of Amendment 1 is to change the full proposal due date from June 22, 2021 to June 29, 2021 for solicitation HR001121S0026 seeking innovative research proposals in the area of quantum benchmarking. The proposed research should focus on either creating application-specific, hardware-agnostic benchmarks to quantify the long-term utility of quantum computers, or estimating hardware resource needs for quantum computers. Research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice is excluded.